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The problem is: Since we don't regularly full-body scan healthy people, we don't know how healthy, or say, still ok, looks like. This will create a lot of false positives and poten…

I think it's difficult to objectively quantify "effectively solved". A good source with loads of information about many diseases and their clinical status is OpenTargets, e.g. http…

If I tell you I have function f with f(a) = 10 and on it's path from a to b, the graph first increaes by 5 units then by another 10, and then later on drops by 25 units, you can im…

As someone who has written his PhD thesis in LaTeX, I wish Markdown, or more specifically Quarto, would have existed at that time. Spent too mich time setting up basic stuff that i…

I work in a corporate setting and the money and time we wasted because of Zscaler and its SSL inspection [1] is beyond your wildest imagination. Whenever I see a "SSL certificate p…

I really don't understand why people think it's a good idea to use csv. In english settings, the comma can be used as 1000-delimiter in large numbers, e.g. 1,000,000 for on million…

There is a saying about Gauss: when another mathematician came to show him a new result, Gauss would remark that he had already worked on it, open a drawer in his desk, and pull ou…

Oh wow, I wish I could give more than one upvote for this reference!

Or a good one, forcing governments to have robust infrastructure that this info isn't useful. Similar reasoning as with security and open source software.

I'm a data scientist and a lot of my R code are dplyr-chains a la data |> select(features) |> filter(low_quality) |> mutate(feature=...). It just saves time to comment on what thos…

> I'll basically do $ man tool | or even $ cat source | Could you please elaborate on this? Do I get this right that you can set up your your command line so that you can pipe some…

Having gone through the explainations of the Transformer Explainer [1], I now have a good intuition for GPT-2. Is there a resource that gives intuition on what changes since then i…

I once bought an Office 2016 license and when I installed it this year on a new laptop, it turned itself into a trimmed down O365. After the first Office update, I got a non-closab…

> Our liveable breathable atmosphere is razor thin compared to the size of earth. If earth were a grapefruit, our atmosphere would be ~1mm thick!

The problem for me is not getting my DNA sequenced but not having to trust a third party with my genetic information. As wirtten in the article, they only achieved a 13% coverage (…

Terence Tao uses a trick, I think he calls "structured procrastination": When there is a thing he doesn't want to do, he recalls another thing he doesn't want to do more. This way …

The consensus here seems to be that Python is missing a pipe operator. That was one of the things I quickly learned to appreciate when transitioning from Mathematica to R. It makes…

> This sort of thing is exactly like preventative whole body MRI scans. It's very noisy, very overwhelming data that is only statistically useful in cases we're not even sure about…

I would plot the destination matrix as a jeatap where each row is a departure and each column an arrival and color is the number of trips. Additionally, you could cluster the rows …

On a related note: Transporting a human in a car is (in relation to weight and size) like using a standard shopping cart to transport two 1L bottles of water. So the next time you …

Could someone maybe give a high-level explanation into why commercial ILP solvers (e.g. Gurobi) are that much better than free/open-source ones? Is it because ILP is inherently tha…

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I had similar issues in the past. Setting up renv, everything seems good, but after working in a project for a few weeks and installing packages, renv constantly complains about th…

Until there is a radically new version of {popular programming language} with breaking changes and no new and correct answers to train on.

Don't get me wrong, I love LaTeX, having written my PhD thesis in it. But with the current tools, I would use Quarto instead. It's much easier, you can still "inject" LaTeX and it'…